AI Can Do Everything You Do. It Cannot Be What You Are

1 month ago

AI is not going to arrive one morning and take over the world. It is already here — writing our emails, generating our images, answering our questions. So the real question is not what AI will do to humans. It is what AI is already doing to human beings. If a machine does our physical work, our bodies change. If a machine does our mental work, our minds change. A washing machine saves time. A calculator saves mental effort. A search engine saves memory. AI can save us from thinking. And there is nothing obviously wrong with any of it. Except that thinking is not merely the production of sentences. Thinking is the struggle through which we discover what we actually believe. A student writes an essay in seconds now. The grammar is corrected, the structure is clean, and from the outside ev